SMALL REDUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 4

SMALL REDUCTION

IN MOTOR LICENSING CHARGES ANNOUNCEMENT BY TRANSPORT MINISTER. SAVING OF 16s 6d ON PRIVATE CARS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Minister of Transport (Mr Semple) announces that reductions will be made, in the charges for relicensing motor vehicles this year. The private car licence fee is being reduced from 40s to 355. In addition, compulsory third party insurance' premiums will be substantially reduced for rnost classes of vehicles.

The new premiums will be as follow (reductions shown in parentheses): Motor cycles, 20s. .(nil); dealers’ vehicles, 35s’ (ss); tractors, 7s (3s); private cars, 16s (10s); business cars, 45s (8s); trade motors, 30s (8s); fire brigade vehicles, 10s (8s); nublic taxis, £lO (nil); private hire toxis, £5 (£2 10s); omnibuses, £5 (£1) ; service cars, £5 (£1); other public motor vehicles, £3 (nil); trailers, 4s (2s); hearses and ambulances, 15s (ss).

In the case of omnibuses, there is still the additional 2s for each seat in excess of ten, but the maximum is reduced from £7 12s to £6 12s. In the case of service cars, the additional 4s for each seat exceeding seven, with a maximum of £7 16s, is reduced to 2s, with a maximum of £5 18s. There is no change in respect to the additional 2s for each seat exceeding ten in the case of other public vehicles. «■ There is also to be an amount of sixpence payable for licence stickers, to be issued in lieu of plates this year. Therefore, when relicensing a car next month, the private owner will pay a total of £2 11s 6d, compared with £3 8s last year.

Mr Semple stated that, for identification purposes, the existing registration plates would be retained on vehicles. New plates as well as stickers would be issued for vehicles not licensed during the 1941-42 licensing year, in which case 2s would be charged for plates.